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NAIROBI<\/code><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY KWENDO OPANGA<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her initial five barnstorming campaigns through Mount Kenya, have shown\u00a0 Kenyans that the fighting spirit she showed in 2007 as President Mwai Kibaki\u2019s campaign agent, was a tip of an iceberg. Her petite physique packs a tiger's energy, power and fierceness. And, she pounces on attackers and hecklers with rapid and rattling verbal fire. <\/code><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What is the next General Election about?\nThis question should not arise because the answer should be obvious. The August\nGeneral Election should be a referendum on the performance of the outgoing\nJubilee Party-run government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue should be whether the lives of\nKenyans are better now than they were in 2013 when President Kenyatta and\nDeputy President William Ruto took power. That in turn means the driver of this\nelectioneering should be the economy and pocketbook issues of families or, put\nanother way, the ability of Kenyans to make ends meet. But, things are not that\nclearcut. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAILA ODINGA AND MARTHA KARUA<\/code><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, the entry of Ms Martha Karua\ninto the presidential race as running mate of Mr Raila Odinga, has been a\npolitical earthquake. Its tremors are still being felt a fortnight after her\npresentation and it has turned Kenya’s politics on its head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her initial five barnstorming campaigns\nthrough Mount Kenya, have shown  Kenyans\nthat the fighting spirit she showed in 2007 as President Mwai Kibaki\u2019s campaign\nagent, was a tip of an iceberg. Her petite physique packs a tiger’s energy,\npower and fierceness. And, she pounces on attackers and hecklers with rapid and\nrattling verbal fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crucially, her emergence as potential\nDeputy President and therefore a heartbeat away from the ultimate seat of\npower, has not only focused attention on August 9, but also on August of 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odinga is expected to serve one term and lay the foundation for a new Kenya to embark on its fourth decade of independence on a new trajectory. Like Nelson Mandela before him, Odinga is expected to handover to new leadership to guide Kenya on that path. Karua will likely inherit that legacy. <\/code><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Odinga is expected to serve one term and\nlay the foundation for a new Kenya to embark on its fourth decade of\nindependence on a new trajectory. Like Nelson Mandela before him, Odinga is\nexpected to handover to new leadership to guide Kenya on that path. Karua will\nlikely inherit that legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kenyan Presidential candidate, Martha Karua, campaigning near Kisumu<\/code><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, the parties that were mandated\nby Kenyans in 2017 to keep the government accountable, namely the Orange\nDemocratic Movement (ODM) of Odinga and the Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) of\nMr Kalonzo Musyoka, absconded their job and appended themselves to the\ngovernment in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In doing so they elbowed Ruto out of\nposition. He in turn evolved into a mongrel, an estranged Number Two and a\nhamstrung opposition operative, in the government. That presents Kenyans with a\nbizarre situation at election time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One, the President gets a free pass from\nOdinga, a candidate who claims not to be in government yet plays co-president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously Odinga would have challenged\nthe participation of cabinet ministers in politics, now he brazenly names them\nas members and leaders of his election campaign teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two, Kenyatta is challenged by Ruto who\nwants to be both in government and out of it. Three, an elected President and\nan unelected Odinga gang up against an elected Deputy President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DP William Ruto, President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga<\/code><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Four, the President has pulled out all\nthe stops to make the election about Odinga, his handpicked heir, as if that\nwill complete his political legacy. Together, Kenyatta and Odinga have fought\nhard to make the 2022 General Election a referendum on the person of Ruto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have nothing good to say about the\nsecond in command. Kenyatta accuses Ruto of absconding duty to campaign to\nsucceed him; Odinga accuses Ruto of corruption and thievery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo and their newfangled Azimio La\nUmoja (Declaration of Unity) coalition, ask Kenyans to reject a plunderer of\npublic coffers. Their acolytes ask Kenyans to back state-backed Odinga whom\nthey brand a safe pair of hands, the scourge of graft and a Mandela-isque\nfighter for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruto also argues that as a son of a peasant who has risen from the pits to be Deputy President, his story tells Kenya\u2019s struggling masses that their children can rise to prominence if given an opportunity and he seeks to give them that chance. That's his bottom-up economics and hustler politics. <\/code><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thirdly, Ruto has pushed back hard,\npreaching the gospel of recognition and respect for the cart-pushing young men,\nvegetable-vending women, hustling men and women, toiling families, and small\nbusiness operators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These, he says, are the people whose\nlabours power Kenya’s economy. Ruto says he wants to empower the downtrodden\nand integrate them into the economy as proud producers of wealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruto also argues that as a son of a\npeasant who has risen from the pits to be Deputy President, his story tells\nKenya\u2019s struggling masses that their children can rise to prominence if given\nan opportunity and he seeks to give them that chance. That’s his bottom-up\neconomics and hustler politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means Ruto has toned down and\nrefined his rhetoric of 2019 through 2021, which defined his politics as\npitting Kenya\u2019s struggling masses against the country\u2019s political and business\ndynasties featuring the Kenyattas, Odingas and Mois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruto\u2019s economics advisor Prof David Ndii\nhas explained that bottom-up economics is about empowerment of small\nbusinesses, small-holder farmers and the so-called informal sector, which\naccount for more than 85 per cent of employment in Kenya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and his son, Uhuru<\/code><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Therefore the private sector pales in\ncomparison to the informal, small and medium scale businesses in terms of\nemployment. Ruto’s economics therefore posits that the government should plough\nback taxpayer money in small businesses. His politics says the poor, too, have\na stake in Kenya\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is bottom-up, that is, moving from the ground upwards. It is not bottoms up whose obscene connotations have seen it dubbed\u00a0 matakonomics<\/em>. Bottoms up and matakonomics<\/em> have been used, by among others Azimio's Executive Director Raphael Tuju, to trivialise and ridicule the bottom-up model. <\/code><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There can be no doubting the populist\nappeal of bottom-up economics and hustler politics. Ironically, this rhetoric\npaints Ruto as the change candidate and Odinga, always the change candidate, as\nthe man for continuity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is why opponents have struggled to\nshift attention from the people, whom bottom-up economics and hustler politics\nis about, to wheelbarrows and bottoms about which the two are certainly not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is bottom-up, that is, moving from the ground upwards. It is not bottoms up whose obscene connotations have seen it dubbed\u00a0 matakonomics<\/em>. Bottoms up and matakonomics<\/em> have been used, by among others Azimio’s Executive Director Raphael Tuju, to trivialise and ridicule the bottom-up model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENDS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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